Alfred Tarnowski

Alfred Tarnowski (3 March 1917 - 24 November 2003) was a Polish chess player who won the Polish Chess Championship in 1961.

Alfred Tarnowski
CountryPoland
Born(1917-03-03)March 3, 1917
Lviv, Austria-Hungary
Died24 November 2003(2003-11-24) (aged 86)
Kraków, Poland

Chess career

Started to play chess in his native Lviv, where Tarnowski lived until 1945. After the end of World War II he moved to Kraków. In 1946 Tarnowski made his debut in the first post-war Polish Chess Championship in Sopot, where he shared seventh place. In the next years he twelve times in the Polish Chess Championship's finals and won two medals: a silver in 1949 in Poznań and gold in 1961 in Katowice. Tarnowski was the participant of eight international chess tournaments.

Also Tarnowski was a chess coach and theorist. In 1950 he won the theoretically valuable party against grandmaster Mark Taimanov.[1]

Alfred Tarnowski played for Poland in Chess Olympiads:[2]

References

  • Alfred Tarnowski player profile and games at Chessgames.com
  • Alfred Tarnowski player profile at 365chess.com
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